Posts by Nicolas

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Who has the slowest computer here?

by JH in

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i was just wondering who has, not the fastest, but the slowest computer here on jwd.. i'll start.

mine is quite slow, but as long as it goes, i'm satisfied.. i have a amd-k6 450 mhz with 256 mb of ram .

any slower computers here?

Nicolas

Mine is a glorious Commodore 64 (joke). Nada, I have a nice Pentium 4 with a clock of 2,6ghz and 512megs of RAM.

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I photographed a ghost! See pics!

by Sirona in

at least i think it might be a ghost .

here is the story: hub and i went to bowness on windermere for a holiday last week.

we had a great time.

As Elsewhere said, if you use a tripod you won't see these strange effects. All I could see in your image was the same kind of effects that I see when I take a picture using a long exposure time with my own digital camera. Also, if you take a photo during the night, noise will appear in the image, especially with a long exposure time. This does not proove in any way that there was a ghost in action. It just proove that the digital photography technology is still in development and there's still some default in it.

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Someone left me an Awake magazine

by poppers in

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much to my surprise i found an awake magazine in my front porch the other day.

surprising because my neighbor's are jw and they know i'm not, and that i'm not interested - the father is an elder and they are always having meetings over there, but they themselves have never approached me.

so, i looked through it with the eye of a skeptic based on what i've read here.

Nicolas

Well, at least you can use this magazine to lit up the fire, if you heat your house with wood, like we do at our home. Or, you could also use it as a cheap way to replace toilet paper :-) .

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Did you read the book "1984" of Georges Orwell?

by Nicolas in

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this book is one of the best book i've ever read.

it describe well the technics that the watchtower use to manipulate their jehovah's witness.

Nicolas

This book is one of the best book I've ever read. It describe well the technics that the Watchtower use to manipulate their Jehovah's Witness.

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Is Global Warming a Myth?

by Sirona in

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i've been reading about global warming recently and to be honest its getting more confusing by the minute.. some say there is so much evidence that it is caused by humans (burning of fossil fuels etc) but some say that it is a natural cycle that we shouldn't worry about.. http://www.junkscience.com/news/robinson.htm.

what is the truth?

are you concerned about our planet?.

Nicolas

If you live in Canada, during the winter, you'll find it very hard to believe that the earth is warming ;-) . A temperature of -10 fahrenheit isn't rare during the cold months of January and February, here in Québec. Often, our car won't start because of a dead battery, ah the pleasure of our winter.

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Are you an atheist? ...

by Nicolas in

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personally, i consider myself as a "soft-atheist".

i don't believe in god but i keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, i'll take it.

for now, i consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in santa claus.

Nicolas

As Euclide said, during the antiquity: "What is affirmed without proof, can be denied without proof". Also Charles Baudelaire said: "God is the only being who don't even need to exist, to reign". Finally John Lennon said in one of its song that "god is a concept by which we measure our pain".

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Are you an atheist? ...

by Nicolas in

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personally, i consider myself as a "soft-atheist".

i don't believe in god but i keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, i'll take it.

for now, i consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in santa claus.

Nicolas

seattleniceguy: What about my theory with Santa Claus? Isn't it true that if you can accept the evidence that god is somewhere in the universe, without any proof, you could also as well, accept that Santa Claus is living somewhere in the north-pole?

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Are you an atheist? ...

by Nicolas in

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personally, i consider myself as a "soft-atheist".

i don't believe in god but i keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, i'll take it.

for now, i consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in santa claus.

Nicolas

Personally, I consider myself as a "soft-atheist". I don't believe in god but I keep an open mind and if someone can come with a real proof of god's existence, I'll take it. For now, I consider that believing in god, is just as silly as believing in Santa Claus.

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